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“Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.”

Doe Stills Force Can Do Air Television Impact Mediums Journalism Print Substitutes Comprehensive

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it. ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.”

“On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.”

Thinking May Shows Attitude Television Finished Journalism Journalist Talk Shows

Author:Ellen Goodman

“There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.”

Reason Television News Journalism No Reason Television News

Book:Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

Source: Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media

“Conflict, when used as a device, makes for good television and bad journalism.”

Used Television Conflict Journalism Devices

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“There`s a fine line between balanced journalism and trial by television.”

Lines Television Fine Trials Journalism Balanced Fine Lines

Author:Joe Berlinger

“I eventually got a job with a television company, started to see how exciting journalism could be as a career, and decided that was what I wanted to do.”

Wanted Jobs Company Careers Television Decided Exciting Journalism

Author:Anne Robinson

“More people pay attention to fiction and to narrative than pay attention to journalism. That's quite sad. More people pay attention to television than to prose. That's equally sad, if not more so.”

People Ifs Pay Attention Fiction Television Journalism Pay Attention Narrative Prose

Author:David Simon